By Edward Hudgins June 6, 2014 – My late Uncle "Boots" Van Pelt was almost killed 70 years ago. He went ashore on Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day. After the initial troop landings, he was found and thought dead, but he roused as they were putting him into a body bag. He got to Paris with the American forces and was later wounded at the Battle of the Bulge.
On the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, we reflect on the heroism of those who fought to liberate Europe. But we should also consider why the conflagration of World War II occurred and why Europe found itself in need of liberation to begin with. Read more >
The drive of sexuality is all around us. It is most viscerally in our bodies; it often drives our deepest desires and fears; it propels much of the glory and diversity of our artifacts; and it manifests itself all over in the natural world! Yet, many of us insist on straitjacketing sexuality
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First she bought a building. Then she turned it into a bakery. But Kathy Prellwitz soon got entangled in a sticky web of complex government regulations and fees. The experience left her in the end with a new priority: Get me to Galt's Gulch!
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